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Boy who begged for water was bayoneted
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 9/5/04 | Peter Conradi

Posted on 09/04/2004 7:20:50 PM PDT by saquin

AFTER more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer, writes Peter Conradi.

Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink. It was probably the worst error that he could have made.

“Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body,” said Stanislav Tsarakhov, 10, another captive standing nearby. “I don’t know if he died.”

Details of the incident emerged as children who escaped the siege described how their captors had deliberately deprived them of food and water, repeatedly firing guns into the ceiling to try to silence them. “The hostage takers would hold their machineguns to your temple and said that if there was a lot of noise, they would shoot everyone,” said a girl, who gave her name only as Zalina.

Diana Gadzhinova, 14, who also survived the siege, said that one of the greatest hardships had been the lack of food and drink.

“When we were let out to go to the lavatory, some children would run into a room where there were plants in pots and they would eat them,” she said.

“Others would hide the plants in their underwear and share them with their friends. But the hunger was not as bad as the thirst. Some children couldn’t take it and would urinate into their hand and drink.”

At another point, Gadzhinova said, they were all ordered to lie down. There were so many people packed into the gym that they had to lie on top of each other. “The gunmen warned that if there was an arm or a leg in their way, they would shoot at it without warning,” she said.

For Arsen Khasigov, 11, trapped with his mother, the worst thing was the sleep deprivation. “They kept us awake all the time,” he said. “They would pour our urine on our heads.”

Also horrific was the role played by two “black widows” — Chechen women who turned to terrorism to avenge husbands and brothers killed during the Kremlin’s military clampdown on the breakaway republic.

According to accounts from some captives, the women blew themselves up in the first hours of the siege, killing several men near them. Last night no trace of their bodies had been found.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beslan; cair; cairsilentonchechnya; chechnya; filthybeasts; jihad; jihadinrussia; muslims; nukemecca; ossetia; religionofpeace; religionofpieces; russia; silenceissupport; silenceofcair; trop; whereiscair
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To: saquin
“Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body,”

Probably took it as questioning his patriotism.

301 posted on 09/05/2004 6:46:59 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: saquin
“Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body,”

The threat of terrorism is overblown. It’s not a war. I want a more sensitive approach.

302 posted on 09/05/2004 6:48:11 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: saquin

What's the difference between Muslim Terrorists and the SS guards at Auschwitz?

Apparently none.


303 posted on 09/05/2004 6:50:15 AM PDT by Casloy (qs)
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To: saquin
Andreas Gross , the Council of Europe's rapporteur on Chechnya, told the BBC that Russian authorities, “have to understand what the people are who do not share their own point of view. And this is a political task they have to learn.

I bet John Kerry agrees (...and disagrees)

304 posted on 09/05/2004 6:56:52 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: Rokke

I too have visited Israel and Jordan. The Palestine people were warm and very friendly. I have a problem judging the problems now with these people that I met but something has to happen to this terrorism all over the world and will likely will be brutal. Even in the USA.

Bush is on the right track and Kerry would destroy us when he appeases these criminals.


305 posted on 09/05/2004 7:05:32 AM PDT by southland (Alabama for BUSH)
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To: Brian Allen

> The leaders of the mosques in the United States frequently damn their members for becoming westernized.

Chuckle. Well, you come to America, you find out it's not all that eeeee-vul.

We were at the weekly car cruise last night, where there are mobs of folks, walking around, admiring all the classic cars. This is in southwestern Virginia, pretty far from that nest of Yuppies up near D.C.

There was a couple, obviously from the Mid East, strolling around hand in hand, admiring the American muscle cars. They could well have been Iraqi, but I'm not sure.

Heh, heh, America is the Borg and we will assimilate you.


306 posted on 09/05/2004 7:08:07 AM PDT by Darnright
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To: saquin; All

Those B*****d's!!!!


307 posted on 09/05/2004 7:43:35 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: Darnright
a couple, obviously from the Mid East, ...admiring the American muscle cars. Heh, heh, America is the Borg and we will assimilate you.

If you compare the rates of assimilation and the populations involved you'll change your mind. On top, their assimilation of us, is purposeful, planned and media supported. BTW cars have nothing to do with anything here. Terrorists like muscle cars too. Oh, they love them, in addition to planes.
308 posted on 09/05/2004 7:51:02 AM PDT by silversky (Thinking is unthinkable to the Demoncrats. Like everything else.)
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To: saquin

May the Spirit of Vlad Tepes rise from the grave to avenge the blood of these innocents.

I hope Putin has more testicular fortitude than American leaders and purges Chechnya and Chechnyans from existence - every last friggin one of them.


309 posted on 09/05/2004 7:53:45 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns)
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To: Missouri

So, is that a yes or no? lol

I'm not convinced the American people understand what's going on and the MSM is hiding the worst from them, deflecting and covering for Muhammadan Terrorists "Guerillas, Militants, Insurgents".


310 posted on 09/05/2004 8:45:48 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
"If they began levelling capitals of Middle Eastern countries with massive air strikes each time there was an attack like this"

Bingo. Starting with Mecca. No compuction, no remorse, no apologies. At some point, they will run out of population centers, or make nice.

Personally, I prefer the former. KTAN.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

311 posted on 09/05/2004 9:26:04 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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To: saquin
Russian Soldier holding baby. A picture tells a 1000 words.
312 posted on 09/05/2004 9:35:16 AM PDT by crushelits
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To: ApesForEvolution
"Terrorists "Guerillas, Militants, Insurgents".


Why don't we just quit fooling around and call them what they really are--WAR CRIMINALS! How long will the world tolerate the non uniform wearing and the intentional targeting of civilians?
313 posted on 09/05/2004 9:40:56 AM PDT by Wristpin
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Where is the world outrage?

My sentiments exactly. This proves that it's not "for the children" at all.

Like you I think of my grandchildren in that situation. I saw a picture of a dead child last night that looked about the age of my Andrew. There is no death too horrific for these sewage floaters.

314 posted on 09/05/2004 9:46:03 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama (www.cantheban.net --Can the "assault" weapons ban!)
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To: Democratshavenobrains

But, DU has "proof" that Bush is Hitler. Therefore he is worse than these animals.


315 posted on 09/05/2004 9:55:33 AM PDT by boop (Testing the tagline feature!)
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To: kcar

Isn't General Urko, (Kofi Annan) a muslim too? He is just gleefully laughing under his breath. The UN and crew should be moved to Europe. In doing this the swine can be with swine.


316 posted on 09/05/2004 10:23:45 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (These Colors Never Run( 7.62) "See Ya"ll At The VA Clinic" "Xin Loi My Boy")
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To: saquin

 

 

317 posted on 09/05/2004 10:25:34 AM PDT by Fintan (I don't have to know what it looks like to know what it looks like.)
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To: afnamvet

I dislike Putin and his fellow Russians, however he needs to send a mushroom cloud to those terrorists.


318 posted on 09/05/2004 10:25:48 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (These Colors Never Run( 7.62) "See Ya"ll At The VA Clinic" "Xin Loi My Boy")
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Beware, Armageddon awaits to arrive on stage with the next "pain feeling" president!


319 posted on 09/05/2004 10:31:47 AM PDT by Grateful One
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To: epow

While the terrorists were a planning, the dope from hope was blowing on his saxaphone or letting monica blow his bent sax. Eight years of do nothing cost many American lives. The brain-dead fools would still vote for that POS and consider him boy wonderful. It takes a dumb-Motherf---ker to raise a democrat and vote for one.


320 posted on 09/05/2004 10:32:51 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (These Colors Never Run( 7.62) "See Ya"ll At The VA Clinic" "Xin Loi My Boy")
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